Prototype GamePad

hey guys, .just need some help with something.. i bought Prototype the game,.. and i hooked up my generic twin USB gamepad ,..it just doesnt work ,.i cant select gamepad from options ,.

any ideas on how to make it work ?

The game works absolutely flawless with my wired xbox360 controller. How can anyone NOT use a 360 controller these days as most Games for Windows / Microsoft design their games to work with it. Its 39.95 and it will be the LAST controller you will ever need. Period.Tyson8earzz

The game plays better with keyboard and mouse anyhow because once you get enough powers as you progress through the game you will need the keyboard. No gamepad has enough buttons.WDT-BlackKat

Games that support the 360 controller natively use the developer created button maps designed for the console counterparts. These work through context sensitive buttons and button combinations.

To the Op, many times these detailed maps cannot be manually configured so it might be worth picking up a 360 controller. Wired USB controllers are pretty cheap these days.

-Byshop

The game works absolutely flawless with my wired xbox360 controller. How can anyone NOT use a 360 controller these days as most Games for Windows / Microsoft design their games to work with it. Its 39.95 and it will be the LAST controller you will ever need. Period.Tyson8earzz

Great, another game denying other pad's existance. I have what I think is the best gamepad on the market - Logitech Rumblepad II Coordless, and please don't anybody tell me to buy crapbox360 controller or that it's better than Rumblepad. I prefer PS2 pad anyday. This is not a niche product for pete's sake, nor a niche brand. Developers start to piss me off. First PoP2008 is denying me the vibrations feature, now Prototype doesn't let me use my gamepad at all. This IS an outrage. I'm pissed beyond recognition!

works perfect with a 360 pad. download the xinput emulation dll and put it in the game folder then any direct input gamepad should work. imprezawrx500

Great, another game denying other pad's existance. I have what I think is the best gamepad on the market - Logitech Rumblepad II Coordless, and please don't anybody tell me to buy crapbox360 controller or that it's better than Rumblepad. I prefer PS2 pad anyday. This is not a niche product for pete's sake, nor a niche brand. Developers start to piss me off. First PoP2008 is denying me the vibrations feature, now Prototype doesn't let me use my gamepad at all. This IS an outrage. I'm pissed beyond recognition!

[QUOTE="imprezawrx500"]works perfect with a 360 pad. download the xinput emulation dll and put it in the game folder then any direct input gamepad should work. MaxiM_

Console ports sometimes are like this...

TerroRizing

No no, it's not a console gamepad. It's PS2 gamepad clone - that's what i meant, but it's a PC USB gear :]

That's why this is so outrageous - you buy great piece of hardware from a major manufacturer (a piece of hardware that works really great in every game i tried) and then SURPRISE! Some wuss developer gets paid to nerf every controller but the Microsoft one, and you're wondering "WTF?"

It's a pretty fresh trend, so i hope it won't turn into a habit among developers, and/or both manufacturers and gamers will eventually force M$ to stop this monopolizing BS.

OK, so i owe an apology to the devs - to some extent. After i came back home from work i did the following: tried to use xinput with a good result, but what surprised me, was that the game actually seen Rumblepad, not Xbox360 controller. So I've tried starting the game again without xinput and actually press start button on my gamepad (button 10) instead of using my mouse/keyboard to start the game. Wow, it was that simple, yet completely unintuitive at the same time. OK, there's still no vibration feedback, but i'm not sure weather it's still a problem, or the devs just skipped that feature (or maybe they are nerfing non-xbox controllers, like PoP2008 does?). But one serious, very serious problem - the main cause of my anger - still remained: terrible slowdown right from the start, even tho I've unplugged pretty much every piece of USB hardware except for the pad.

So I've decided to upgrade bios, then I've downgraded(!) my chipset drivers to those officially supported by my mobo manufacturer. It helped, not solved the problem, but helped a lot. I sure hope for a quick patch to fix HID problems - i mean really, why would i need to unplug my mouse (sic!) whenever i start the game?

OK, ok, but back to the topic. Rumblepad works, and is more than supported by the game - it even has it's image in controller mapping view, so yeah, they thought about it.

So tip to everyone still having problems: update bios, be sure you use optimal driver version for your chipset AND actually press start on your controller when the game tells you to press start. Hope this helps someone, even tho it's a bunch of pretty obvious things to do. But sometimes the most obvious solution is the most elusive at the same time 8)

My Rumble Pad 2(wired) is working perfectly with vibration.

Huh, good to know, but it's a shame that someone at Radical forgot about implementing full cordless support for Rumblepad 2.

wow,. thanx guys for all of your inputs, i didnt think ppl would actually respond,. :)

thanx again for all your replies,. special thanx to NamelessPlayer, i have downloaded ure file and it totaly works ,. thanx soo much :)

That Xinput thing works very well, though it has some buttons flipped and I'm not sure how to flip them correct.MasterDuncan03

love that xbox 360 emulator... what a saviour

thanks, i already knew about this program, it is very useful, and thanks i updated my already older version of this prog, and it works fine, runin and smahin fings just fine ingame :)

Yeah I'm just using a PS2 twin usb connector, no real install, stirctly plug and play to make a PS2 controller into a pad. No software involved, no clue where I'd find the config file for it, but thanks for the advice.MasterDuncan03

try this, it SHOULD work fine, if not then youŗe out of luck

psxp driver

very serious problem - the main cause of my anger - still remained: terrible slowdown right from the start, even tho I've unplugged pretty much every piece of USB hardware except for the pad.

So I've decided to upgrade bios, then I've downgraded(!) my chipset drivers to those officially supported by my mobo manufacturer. It helped, not solved the problem, but helped a lot. I sure hope for a quick patch to fix HID problems - i mean really, why would i need to unplug my mouse (sic!) whenever i start the game?

MaxiM_

yes i have this problem too, when playing with gamepad (with xinput) i haveslowdown what just makes u angry, and you will be back to muse and keyboard

[QUOTE="MaxiM_"]

very serious problem - the main cause of my anger - still remained: terrible slowdown right from the start, even tho I've unplugged pretty much every piece of USB hardware except for the pad.

So I've decided to upgrade bios, then I've downgraded(!) my chipset drivers to those officially supported by my mobo manufacturer. It helped, not solved the problem, but helped a lot. I sure hope for a quick patch to fix HID problems - i mean really, why would i need to unplug my mouse (sic!) whenever i start the game?

gvidzix

yes i have this problem too, when playing with gamepad (with xinput) i haveslowdown what just makes u angry, and you will be back to muse and keyboard

found solution, uze "xpadder_gamepad_profiler" , you can give any function from keyboard mouse to your gamepad, but yeah force feadback wont be working

Just to report: vibrations with my Logitech Coordles Rumblepad II are working. Seems like this wasn't Prototype's fault for a change. I have recharged my batteries and voila - it works. So all in all, I got my pad working fully and without any problems after all the workarounds i had to make just to play the game at decent speed with some shortcommings.

Just to report: vibrations with my Logitech Coordles Rumblepad II are working. Seems like this wasn't Prototype's fault for a change. I have recharged my batteries and voila - it works. So all in all, I got my pad working fully and without any problems after all the workarounds i had to make just to play the game at decent speed with some shortcommings.

MaxiM_

heh good for you, but well with xinput prototype slows down for me, but with xpadder it doesn't, but with xpadder there is no forfeedback, but i guess it's not a big loss and still some challenges for medals is easier to do with keyboard and mouse, i need to practice with gamepad to do them faster

I have a wired xbox360 controller and I get no vibrations on prototype for pc. Any ideas?

i cant' play prototype wit my gamepad

what should i do?

Thank you nameless player.

I am using theXBOX360 Controller Emulator v3.0 byRacer_Slinked earlier.

For some reason. My right analog(I am using a ps2 controller) totally switched. My Left and right cause the game to look up and down and my up and down go right and left. How would I fix this?

Hi All - new to toe forum... anyway I had the same problem, as in the game didnt recognise my controller. I use Joy2Key, although I could not map "F" - DISGUISE POWERS Here is a link to mys site with the configuration and picture of the controller http://www.damagespike.co.uk/prototype-video-game Best Regards, DamageSpikeDamageSpike

who cares? they're rarely bumped it's no big deal. unless it's against Gamespot TOS or something. Though I'd tell Gamespot it's a silly rule too.

is that supposed to be insulting? I don't care if people bump old threads and I don't care that I had to bump one to say that. :P